Maps on one-point compactifications #
The extension OnePoint.map f sends infinity to infinity. Its range is the range of f,
embedded in the target compactification, together with infinity, and it is injective exactly
when f is injective. For a proper map between arbitrary topological spaces, this extension
is continuous. Closed embeddings extend to closed embeddings. These lemmas allow proper
parametrizations to be compactified, with an explicit description of their range after adjoining
infinity and a criterion for injectivity.
Extension to one-point compactifications preserves and reflects injectivity.
The range of the extension to one-point compactifications is the embedded range together with the point at infinity.
A proper map between arbitrary topological spaces extends continuously to the one-point compactifications, sending infinity to infinity.
A closed embedding between arbitrary topological spaces extends to a closed embedding of their one-point compactifications.